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HR34 (Genie) and HR21 Whole Home Questions

Saw a lot of of close answers in other threads, but nothing spot on to my question.

I am getting an HR34 installation tomorrow and plan to keep my HR21 in another room as a specialized/backup recorder (recording shows I would normally put a parental lock on). I would like to see the HR34 recordings on my HR21, but not the other way around. My goal is to avoid seeing the "blocked content" titles on my main system (HR34 and HR31 clients).

It appears one option would be to disable whole home on the HR21 and simply use (redundantly) an HR31 on the same TV to access the whole home content. This seems like it MAY be overkill if I can get the sytem to behave as described above without the extra HR31.